Milk-strainer and support therefor.



H. J. EBNBR.

MILK STRAINBR AND SUPPORT THEREFOR.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT, 13, 1910v 1 $315,946. Patented Ja so, 1912.

W1 TNESSES [AWE/V7013 HEiuv ANN (T. EIBNER', or PATlIGE TEXAS,

, MILK-STRAINER AND sorrow THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 13, 1910. Serial Nd. 581,755.

-it apperta-ins 'to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in milk strainers and sup-. ports thereforv and my object is to provide a strainer of such construction as to prevent the splashing and spilling of'milk as the same is poured therethrough.

A further object is to provide, a support for the strainer which is adapted to rest on a separator supply tank, thereby obviating the necessity of, a person holding the strainer thereover.

A still further object is to provide a device of simple and economical structur which shall be efiicient in operation.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the specification and claim.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is'a perspective view of the strainer and support applied thereto, and, Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section therethrough.

. Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals Y designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates a strainer of bowl-shape design,- the walls of which are curved compoundly, the lower curvethereof being greater than the upper, whereby it will be seen that as milk is poured therein, the customary splashing will be obviated. The bottom of said strainer l is provided with anopening 2, over which is placed, in any preferred manner, a wire gauze 3; and an annular ,conical flange l. integral with the bottom of said strainer, depends from the periphery of said opening 2, whereby the contents of supply tank or the like after the same has been strained through the wire gauze at the bottom of said strainer. 1

It is extremely inconvenient and laborious, to say the least, to hold the strainer over a' receptacle while pouring the milk therein and to this end, I, therefore, provide a support for said strainer, comprising a band 5 having a conical; wall and ,a plurality of integral supporting arms 6 i'adially disposed therefrom, which-areadapt- W ed to rest upon a separator supply tank or other receptacle into 'whichithe milk is to, be strained. Separator supply tanks are very often round and ofttimes square, as

may be other receptacles into whichemilkis to be strained and to provide :for the positive engagem'entof the arms 6 with-the upper ends of saidseparators or' receptacles,

the outer ends of saidarms are bent downwardly toform hookportions 7. w The strainer proper is supported over the receptacle or separator supply tankby inserting the depending annular flange Lin the-. ban'd 5 and, as, iii this instance, the

'parts areofmetal, the possibility of rust which will necessarily prevent the easy separa-tion of the parts when'the operation has been completed will be great, I provide a cloth or the like 8 which is-to be inserted between the annular flange 4 and the band 5, which will not. alone prevent the strainer 'from being heldby the rust ,whichImayj.

occur between the flange thereof and said-. band, but will act as a double strainer in conjunction with the wire gauze 3.-

lVhat I claim is I The combination with a receptaclehaving an opening in the'bottom thereof, a wire my gauze extending over said openlng, and an annular flange mtegral with said receptacle and depending from the periphery of said opening,

i'ng radially from said band. 100

To testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence I of two subscribing witnesses. sa1d strainer may be guided into a separator Witnesses: F. HENRY URBAN,

TOM Rownnr'r.

' Patented Jan. 20,1912,

said flange being inclined inl wa'rdly; of a rigid band adapted to receive said flange, said band being disposed at an 

